Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Using iPads in the High School Science Classroom

Using the iPad in High School Science

When I first got an iPad back in 2011, I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with it; however, I knew that it had potential. Within a few months, I began to find uses for it that helped my teaching and student learning. It took nearly 6 months for it to fully integrate into my classroom teaching workflow, but I now realize that I could never go back to anything less. There are a number of great things about other classroom technologies, as well, and I'm not saying that the iPad is the best for everyone, but there sure is a lot of compelling evidence that suggests it might be.

Here are my top 50 uses for the iPad, as a teacher, from my first year using it to teach high school physics and chemistry. This list was compiled in 2012, after exactly one year of using the iPad in my classes to teach. Some of these uses are apps, many of them are free, and others are functions of the stock iPad system or built-in device actions. This post will soon be updated for 2013 to a version 2.0, but in the meantime, there are many great ideas for teachers who have an iPad to use with their classes.

oTouch Sounds and Tone Generator - to create different tones and waveforms of
varying frequencies to display using the laser or Ruben's Tube visualization

oSoundCloud, Meta DJ and Wave Pad - to show how waveforms graph the sound waves over
time, and how waveforms are used in music production to visually cue the
different sections of a song

oMeta DJ and GarageBand - to teach students about frequency modulation and
effects production in music as it relates to modifying the equation for the
sound waveform

oCamera and Photo Booth - to capture images and video from class to then
post on Google+, Twitter, display on the board over AirPlay on the Apple TV, or
to share using other applications

oCamera
- to function as a mobile document camera or live feed camera to show what is
happening in a lab experiment or demo on one side of the room to students on
the other side of the room using AirPlay

oCloudOn - to manage, access and edit documents in a DropBox account using the
Microsoft Office suite controls --> to edit and manage the standards based
grading spreadsheet gradebook

oNumbers - to collect data on student performance, completion of tasks, field
trip payments and permission slips --> allows for a star rating to collect
data easily; spreadsheet can then be exported via email to merge with data
master gradebook spreadsheet

oPaperport Notes - to write notes and create answer keys for in class use live over
AirPlay or to export directly to Google Docs where class files are stored
--> can open and edit a PDF document, uses graphing, lined, or blank paper

oTuning Fork - used to teach about musical pitch and frequency of sound waves as
well as to demonstrate the concept of beats

oSplashtop Remote Desktop - to remotely control my MacBook (before I had an
Apple TV) to use the iPad as an Airliner for the Smart Notebook software as
well as control web apps such as physics simulations

oiMotion HD - to make stop animation videos of things that happened in the lab or
in class (kind of for fun) and to post them on Google+ or Twitter

oCinemagram - to make cool GIFs of things that happened in class and to post them
on Google+ or Twitter

oVideo Physics - app for capturing video footage of objects in motion and analyzing
their motion for its speed, direction, acceleration, and path

oSimplePhysics - a challenging problem-solving game for students to use their
knowledge of various physics concepts to accomplish a building task, such as
constructing a roof, staircase, or treefort, which has to accomplish a certain
task (such as support a load of weight.)

oMr. AaaaHh! & Angry Birds - an app for teaching about projectile motion and
calculating acceleration due to gravity in a video game world

oUnderground Basketball - a fun game to challenge students' knowledge of
projectiles and motion in two dimensions. Students have to make baskets by
changing the angle of trajectory for shooting a basketball

oNewton's Cradle - an interactive app that shows the conservation of momentum and
transfer of energy in the Newton's Cradle toy

oRefractive - an app for calculating the angle of refraction and visualizing the
refraction of light

oQuick Graph - graphing functions to help students visualize relationships in their
data from lab experiments

oCalculator - calculations for lab data

oGoSkyWatch and Planetary - uses the movement of the iPad to match up to the
star map and information on constellations in the app to view the stars that
the iPad is facing. Planetary takes your music library and translates it into
an outer space analogy display. Used to help students to think about the motion
of the heavenly bodies.

oSkype, Google+ Hangout, and FaceTime - video chatting in real time for 1 on 1 or
up to 20 persons (G+ only) -- used to allow absent students to view class,
students communicate with project groups when they cannot arrange face to face
meetings. Send students to collect lab data outside the classroom and report
back to students in real time with lab partners in the classroom, or project on
screen with Apple TV (like a roaming camera)

oTourWrist - 3D virtual tours of panoramic views from around the world

oStick Pick - randomly select students to ask questions of in class; generates
prompts for questions based on Bloom's taxonomy and keeps track of teacher
ratings of students' responses.

oiReview - to make flashcards and quizzes out of Quizlet flashcard sets

oShowMe
- to create narrated whiteboard-style videos of explanations of homework or of
class concepts. The videos get posted on the ShowMe website and shared via
Google+ or Twitter

oFoursquare (with the mobile hotspot) - to run and manage a scavenger at Cedar
Point

oSocrative - polling and quizzing application for audience (student) responses
using devices or any web browser. Students can vote on surveys or polls, answer
quiz questions, share ideas/hypotheses, or take a graded quiz. Works on any web
browser and also has mobile device based apps (teacher version and student
version)

oSkyfire and Puffin - web browsers that make web browsing more fully
functional, e.g., to show flash animations, SlideRocket presentations from
students, interactive applets, or embedded videos from a website. Also, to show
YouTube videos that would be blocked on the school wireless, because YouTube is
blocked on the school wireless entirely

oMusic
- to power the Ruben's tube, laser for music visualization; to power styrofoam
plate speakers made by students in class.

oWeb-Browser (Safari) - take attendance, reference information online

oLino
- an app for creating bulletin boards and sticky notes that can be
collaboratively written on. Teacher can create a prompt and students can post
sticky notes responding to the prompt. Students can take photos of something
from their lab experiment and post the photo on the board. Accessible from the
web or device apps. Saveable boards can be published. Can use like a display
board for student work.

Very good!, very well organized. Being able to use iPad and phones in class is very revolutionary, unlike the other teachers which are completely objected to it! So i appreciate what your way of teacher.

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